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For the last year the mantra among market observers has been that although the US economic expansion is long in the tooth, there’s no need to worry about poor manufacturing confidence surveys. As long as the services ...

It is little wonder that interest in ‘alternative assets’ has exploded. We live in a world of negative interest rates, where $17tn of bonds including government bonds trade at nominal yields below zero – meaning ...

Investors have been rocked by the culmination of the woes facing one-time star fund manager Neil Woodford and more importantly those who put their faith in him. Having seen the flagship equity income fund wound ...

The failure of Thomas Cook is a timely reminder of the destructive power that excessive debt can have on shareholder value. Investors have been wiped out by the strain of the package holiday firm’s £1.5bn ...

On a normal, relatively quiet Monday afternoon on 9 September, some shares experienced a sharp move with no associated corporate news flow attached. As it later turned out, the same thing was happening to stocks with ...

The Chancellor has refused to review a decision on whether to scrap the controversial Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation in the short-term, despite reputable statisticians saying it is a flawed measure of ...

There has been a dearth of companies floating on the UK stock market this year, perhaps understandably given Brexit-induced volatility. A mere 25 companies have floated in London so far in 2019, compared with 87 in ...

Fund managers, banks and City lobby organisations are understood to be working on ground breaking proposals that could cut stock market trading hours in the UK and across Europe, opening an hour later at 9am and closing ...

WHAT HAS HAPPENED? The state-directed Chinese yuan currency moved through the seven per dollar threshold on 5 August for the first time since the global financial crisis in 2008. This provoked the US Treasury ...

The FANGs and other big US tech stocks are being viewed through the lens of record high share prices by investors worried about a US stock market on the point of overheating. Yet many of the biggest and ...